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Article: Now safety watchdogs are gunning for gojis.(goji berries banned for health concerns)(Brief article)
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- February 17, 2007
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Fans of the goji berry could soon find themselves unable to buy the fruit as food-safety watchdogs prepare to ban it.
Retailers have already been told to wind down their stocks of products containing the small, red berry and not reorder.
The FSA admits there is no immediate threat to human health, but says it has no choice but to ban goji berries as a novel food under EU legislation, unless retailers can prove they sold the berries before May 1997.
Given that only Chinese food shops stocked the berries until their recent surge in popularity, most vendors are unlikely to be able to do this.
Once branded as a novel food, goji berries ...